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Bishop Michael Curry Elected Presiding Bishop

On Saturday, June 27, the Episcopal Church elected the Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, to become the 27th Presiding Bishop-elect, “first among equals,” to lead the Church for the next nine years on the first ballot with 121 votes of 174 voting bishops. The House of Deputies confirmed with a vote of 800 to 12. “The Church has challenges before it but we have a God and there really is a Jesus,” said Curry. “We are part of the Jesus movement … nothing can stop the movement of God’s love in this world.”